KazCamp 2024 report from Japan
Milkpan from Kobe University at KazCamp 2024 - photo courtesy of Kaz Inaba Kazuhiro Inaba, one of Japan's premier bluegrass entertainers, has shared a report from...
Milkpan from Kobe University at KazCamp 2024 - photo courtesy of Kaz Inaba Kazuhiro Inaba, one of Japan's premier bluegrass entertainers, has shared a report from...
Japan has been a bluegrass music hot-bed for more than 50 years, and one of the principal practitioners and proponents during that time has been...
The Takarazuka Festival in Japan is recognized as the third oldest ongoing bluegrass festival in the world, after Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom and Ralph Stanley's...
Many thanks to Kaz Inaba in Japan for sharing this historic video of Bill Clifton when he visited Japan in 1993, and performed at the...
Ralph Stanley, Jack Cooke, and Roy Lee Centers in Japan (1971) - photo © Tsutomu Otsuka Fred Robbins has added another valuable collection of historic photographs...
As unlikely as it might have once seemed, the Japanese have always had a fascination with American music. Their preference for jazz was evident immediately...
Way back in 2014, we told you about a new documentary film then in production called Far West. The brainchild of director James Payne, the...
The Japanese have always been fascinated by western culture, whether it’s American films, clothing or, of course, music. Masuo Sasabe, singer and guitarist for the...
Saburo and Toshio Watanabe celebrated their 45th anniversary hosting the Takarazuka festival in Sanda City, Japan this past weekend. The pair have run B.O.M. Service (Bluegrass and Old...
Kaz Inaba sent along this brief report with photos from his annual KazCamp, a premiere annual event for bluegrass fans in Japan. I'd like to report that...